ATTRIBUTED TO THE WORKSHOP OF ASTEAS AND PYTHON, CIRCA 350-330 B.C.

Details

A PAESTAN APPLIED RED-FIGURED CALYX-KRATER
ATTRIBUTED TO THE WORKSHOP OF ASTEAS AND PYTHON, CIRCA 350-330 B.C.
6 7/8 in. (17.4 cm.) high

Provenance

with Jürgen Haering, Freiburg, by 1987.
with Royal-Athena Galleries, New York.
John Kluge (1914-2010), Charlottesville, acquired from the above, 1988.
Patricia Kluge, Charlottesville, acquired from the above, 1990.
with Royal-Athena Galleries, New York, acquired from the above, 2010 (One Thousand Years of Ancient Greek Vases II, 2010, no. 163).

Literature

A.D. Trendall, The Red-Figured Vases of Paestum, London, 1987, p. 452, no. 13a.

Special notice

This lot is offered without reserve.

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Lot Essay

As Trendall informs (op. cit., pp. 364-365), the technique of wholly decorating vases in applied color against a black background originates in Athens in the late 6th century B.C. with the work of Nikosthenes when added colors were used in conjunction with incision for detail (known as Six’s technique after the Dutch scholar who first studied the group). The technique was later adopted by Etruscan and South Italian vase-painters. Of this calyx-krater, Trendall (op. cit, p. 452) remarks, “This is one of the finest of the vases decorated in applied red and is close to the early work of Asteas.”

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